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Collaboration/Competition

I've got an idea for a collaborative project.
Currently I'm very fond of mapping fortresses. I'm looking for someone who wants to create a map with me (or two maps that joins) of two opposing foresses with a divider between (river, canyon, strait). Just for the fun of it. They don't have to be the same style or look very good. Each one designs one fortress that opposes the other one.
The purpose is more the discussion and collaboration than the actual map.
The idea is really un formed right now.
Is this any good?
Any takers?

Sounds like a pretty interesting idea and like to see the city-specialists do this up right and proper.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)